Question follow-through · 90109
Small Businesses: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has commissioned research from National Institute of Economic and Social Research in the last three years on (a) international lending rates and (b) levels international lending to SMEs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has commissioned research from National Institute of Economic and Social Research in the last three years on (a) international lending rates and (b) levels international lending to SMEs.
18 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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18 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department for Business and Trade has commissioned research on the alternatives to commercial lending in the SME Business Market. The research, undertaken by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, intends to study the characteristics ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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